CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Gilaitis, Mindaugas |
|---|---|
| Title | APRIORITY AND MEANING: A CASE OF THE EPISTEMIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMANTICS |
| Summary | This thesis is devoted to an analysis of the conception of apriority that is proposed by the epistemic two-dimensional semantics. The aims of the thesis are two: first, to clarify presuppositions and broader theoretical commitments of the semantic framework that is aiming to ground apriority in semantic terms; second, to critically evaluate the semantic conception that is being proposed by it. However, both of the aims are interconnected in a way that critical evaluation of the epistemic approach to two-dimensional semantics is supposed to clarify theoretical assumptions about the nature of meaning in terms of which apriority is being explained. If an interpretation of the epistemic two-dimensional semantics is adequate and critical evaluations of it and its conception of apriority are valid, then the semantic conception of apriority that is proposed by the epistemic two-dimensional semantics is problematic, since, on the one hand, it is incompatible with semantic externalism, and, on the other hand, it loses its explanatory power if semantic internalism is assumed. |
| Supervisor | Miščević, Nenad |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/gilaitis_mindaugas.pdf |
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